Driven mostly by domestic political compulsions, New Delhi will be pushing for amendments to ensure UN-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka sends a “resolute message” to the island nation. HT reports.

Driven mostly by domestic political compulsions, New Delhi will be pushing for amendments to ensure UN-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka sends a “resolute message” to the island nation.

The Indian amendments will “reflect the views of the political parties” and its New Delhi’s concerns for the Tamil minority population and their plight, government sources said.

As he indicated, finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday also rubbished as absolute “canard” media reports that India was working to dilute the strongly-worded resolution by the US.

“India’s position has always been and remains that the UNHRC should adopt a strong resolution that would send a resolute message to Sri Lanka and goad Sri Lanka to accept an independent and credible investigation,” finance minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday.

He said the government had begun the process of formulating amendments to the draft resolution before the UNHRC.